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Sep 26, 2010
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by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

I couldn't agree more, with one exception: most parents DO believe that punishing a child using physical means IS appropriate and warranted. When you say they "don't want to", I don't buy it. If most parents really and truly "didn't want to", they simply wouldn't. They would find a better way. Sadly, most don't find a better way. Instead, they resort to what they either know, having been disciplined that way themselves, or they allow themselves to strike a child. It's a choice, and it's one that the vast majority of parents still make to this day. What's different today is that those of us who don't believe in physical discipline are speaking out louder and louder. Our voices are finally being heard. The message is getting out there, slowly, but surely. More parents are changing their thinking, but we have a long way to go. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this issue with my visitors and me.

And just for the record, I was taken aback by what you wrote in the "by" field, especially after reading your thoughtful article. It left me wondering how you could be so disrespectful when you were advocating respect for children. If you didn't want your name included, you could have chosen to leave it blank, or Anonymous would have been a perfectly acceptable entry. You showed me and my visitors a great deal of disrespect when you wrote what you actually did. This is a field I cannot change due to the parameters of the module available to me for visitor contributions. I ask that you show some respect in future submissions.

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Sep 27, 2010
 Parent's are at their wit's end:
by: maurice

I believe the vicious circle continues of diciplining by smacking, spanking, beating childred still goes on in many homes here in my own country and through out the UK Europe and certainly in many states in the US: Why?? because sadly these parents know no better: What happeend them was OK it did me no lasting damage is the answer I get when I challenge them: But I say surely you can see how it could effects your children now with all the reality of child abuse being debated around you from those years: I rear my child the way I want is their Answer: I mention the effects it had on me for a good part of my life and even still the effects still haunt me: I believe those of us who were abused by being spanked or beaten on the bare bottom can make a genuine effort to speak our minds and have the courage of our convctions that spanking or phyically beating a child is not justifable: The family still being the Basic Unit of our society even though fragmented now in many forms I still believe that the majority of Parenet love and cherish there children by using other forms of correction or helping them when there child does something naughty: I envy some parent's though having journeyed and worked with Families for over forty years: Some are at their wits end to know what to do when their child really defies every effort they make to see what is rioght: For my own peace of mind I percent each case I hear and then percent it against the great population in that area: It is still the smallest PC; I believe honestly 80pc of family life is good wholesome and loving in a caring and cherishing way: There are still Happy Families in our society today:

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